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  OUTLINE. 
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  getlier 
  with 
  about 
  one 
  hundred 
  Frenchmen 
  and 
  four 
  or 
  

   live 
  hundred 
  Indians, 
  against 
  the 
  Chickasaw 
  towns, 
  and 
  

   those 
  Indians, 
  alarmed 
  at 
  the 
  vast 
  preparations 
  the 
  

   French 
  had 
  made, 
  and 
  believing 
  Celeron's 
  party 
  was 
  only 
  

   the 
  advance 
  guard 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  army, 
  presented 
  them- 
  

   selves 
  before 
  him, 
  and 
  sued 
  for 
  peace 
  in 
  the 
  humblest 
  

   terms, 
  promising 
  to 
  deliver 
  up 
  the 
  Natchez 
  in 
  their 
  pos- 
  

   session, 
  and 
  to 
  exterminate 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  that 
  doomed 
  race. 
  

   Celeron, 
  accepting 
  the 
  terms, 
  dispatched 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   chiefs 
  after 
  Bienville, 
  who 
  was 
  overtaken 
  on 
  the 
  Missis- 
  

   sippi, 
  and 
  concluded 
  a 
  peace 
  with 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  proposed 
  

   conditions, 
  not 
  including 
  the 
  Choctaws, 
  however, 
  in 
  this 
  

   pacific 
  arrangement, 
  that 
  nation 
  being 
  left 
  free 
  to 
  prose- 
  

   cute 
  their 
  hostilities 
  at 
  pleasure. 
  

  

  The 
  Chickasaws, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  stipulation 
  of 
  the 
  

   treaty, 
  delivered 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  Natchez 
  to 
  Celeron, 
  who 
  

   transferred 
  them 
  to 
  New 
  Orleans, 
  and 
  after 
  demolishinsr 
  

   Fort 
  Assumption, 
  returned 
  to 
  Canada, 
  being 
  the 
  only 
  

   officer 
  who 
  had 
  distinguished 
  himself 
  or 
  gained 
  any 
  

   reputation 
  in 
  this 
  pompous 
  and 
  abortive 
  expedition. 
  

  

  The 
  miserable 
  remnant 
  of 
  the 
  Natchez, 
  finding 
  no 
  

   longer 
  any 
  security 
  among 
  their 
  late 
  friends, 
  retired 
  

   finally 
  among 
  the 
  Cherokees 
  in 
  Georgia, 
  with 
  whom 
  they 
  

   found 
  a 
  secure 
  asylum, 
  and 
  in 
  time 
  became 
  merged 
  in 
  

   that 
  nation. 
  

  

  In 
  1741, 
  the 
  Marquis 
  of 
  Vaudreuil 
  was 
  appointed 
  

   governor 
  of 
  Louisiana, 
  and 
  Bienville, 
  who 
  had 
  asked 
  to 
  

   be 
  recalled, 
  left 
  the 
  province 
  for 
  France, 
  never 
  more 
  to 
  

   return, 
  much 
  esteemed 
  and 
  regretted 
  by 
  the 
  colonists. 
  

   For 
  more 
  than 
  forty 
  years 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  connected 
  with 
  

   the 
  colony, 
  remaining 
  in 
  it 
  continually, 
  except 
  during 
  

   the 
  administration 
  of 
  Perrier, 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  that 
  time 
  as 
  

   the 
  chief 
  in 
  command. 
  He 
  was 
  perhaps 
  more 
  devoted 
  to 
  

   its 
  interests, 
  and 
  did 
  more 
  to 
  advance 
  them 
  than 
  any 
  

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